2015: American Pharoah becomes 12th Triple Crown winner

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

wrong again, on both counts.

You previously were very sharp, so unless you recently enrolled, that's not likely it.

My best guess would be a strong bias. Say, against the horse, connections, etc.

Ridiculous. Just re-read this thread from the point after the Preakness was run.

The first comment on the race was someone saying that Mr. Z. made $45k running 5th. You come on with the second comment on the race. It is completely out of left field, whining about all the excuses being made for the also-rans and how AP should get a huge Beyer but probably won't (you know, because the whole universe is against him!). No one had even commented on the running of the race at that point.

Later, you come back on with a rant about weak crops and perfect setups and how everyone is accusing you of chest-thumping. The only Preakness comment in between is something about Martin Garcia helping out by keeping Dortmund off the lead.

So, again, I ask you: where are these ridiculous comments about American Pharaoh that you are crusading against?

Second guess would be traumas, be it emotional or some sort of head trauma.

I thought that was required to post here. Aren't we all sitting around in white undershirts and pants waiting around for Nurse Ratched to turn on TVG?

Third would be you are an imposter, not the real Rollo. Maybe you've channelled the old pg1985, smooth operator, or even Somerset.

Oddly, the only one to bite with a response to your hysterics is a poster (NavalOrange---the dam of Cryptoclearance) who posts even less frequently then I do.

Hmmmm. Imposters you say...

One might have just flown over the cuckoo's nest...

[Danzig]

[quote=RolloTomasi;1027780]Ridiculous. Just re-read this thread from the point after the Preakness was run.

The first comment on the race was someone saying that Mr. Z. made $45k running 5th. You come on with the second comment on the race. It is completely out of left field, whining about all the excuses being made for the also-rans and how AP should get a huge Beyer but probably won't (you know, because the whole universe is against him!). No one had even commented on the running of the race at that point.

Later, you come back on with a rant about weak crops and perfect setups and how everyone is accusing you of chest-thumping. The only Preakness comment in between is something about Martin Garcia helping out by keeping Dortmund off the lead.

So, again, I ask you: where are these ridiculous comments about American Pharaoh that you are crusading against?


I thought that was required to post here. Aren't we all sitting around in white undershirts and pants waiting around for Nurse Ratched to turn on TVG?



Oddly, the only one to bite with a response to your hysterics is a poster (NavalOrange---the dam of Cryptoclearance) who posts even less frequently then I do.

Hmmmm. Imposters you say...

One might have just flown over the cuckoo's nest...[/QUOTE]


i wonder about that adage...because cuckoos don't nest. they lay their eggs in another birds nest after kicking out that birds eggs, and get the other bird to raise their kids.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i wonder about that adage...because cuckoos don't nest. they lay their eggs in another birds nest after kicking out that birds eggs, and get the other bird to raise their kids.

That's exactly what Indian Charlie is doing. His "ridiculous comments" are his eggs that he is trying to force upon us so that we hatch them and raise them so we can keep talking about American Pharaoh and he can strut and preen like a proud mama up and down these Derby Trail pages.

Don't be fooled.

Now get back on the bus....

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

That's exactly what Indian Charlie is doing. His "ridiculous comments" are his eggs that he is trying to force upon us so that we hatch them and raise them so we can keep talking about American Pharaoh and he can strut and preen like a proud mama up and down these Derby Trail pages.

Don't be fooled.

Now get back on the bus....

good lord that bus is garish

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Well, actually (pauses to push nerd glasses up on nose) only about 40 percent of cuckoo species worldwide are brood parasites. The rest do build their own nests.

(pause)

(push glasses back up nose)

I liked that book.

lol

[freddymo]

I can certify that the man posting under the name Rollo is indeed the famous notorious and genuine Rollo. Only he would know I cried when Orb lost the Preakness.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by freddymo

I can certify that the man posting under the name Rollo is indeed the famous notorious and genuine Rollo. Only he would know I cried when Orb lost the Preakness.

the viking duke of normandy?! that's awesome!

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by freddymo

I can certify that the man posting under the name Rollo is indeed the famous notorious and genuine Rollo. Only he would know I cried when Orb lost the Preakness.

Perhaps he's possessed by the spirit of PG1985 past?

[Bystander]

Originally Posted by freddymo

I can certify that the man posting under the name Rollo is indeed the famous notorious and genuine Rollo. Only he would know I cried when Orb lost the Preakness.

This entire thread gives me SO MUCH happiness. Freddy, Rollo, BTW, like old times. (You know I cried too, Fred.)

[casp0555]

Originally Posted by freddymo

I can certify that the man posting under the name Rollo is indeed the famous notorious and genuine Rollo. Only he would know I cried when Orb lost the Preakness.

Originally Posted by Bystander

This entire thread gives me SO MUCH happiness. Freddy, Rollo, BTW, like old times. (You know I cried too, Fred.)

I cried too....but I dont know if it was because Orb lost or the fact that I didnt have a dime bet on Oxbow

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Only he would know I cried when Orb lost the Preakness.

[Indian Charlie]

Now you've done it Danzig.

Rollo is going to revise biology and tell you what you said isn't right.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Now you've done it Danzig.

Rollo is going to revise biology and tell you what you said isn't right.

Damn, he already did it in the few seconds available to me.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Now you've done it Danzig.

Rollo is going to revise biology and tell you what you said isn't right.

Well, actually (pauses to push nerd glasses up on nose) only about 40 percent of cuckoo species worldwide are brood parasites. The rest do build their own nests.

(pause)

(push glasses back up nose)

I liked that book.

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Well, actually (pauses to push nerd glasses up on nose) only about 40 percent of cuckoo species worldwide are brood parasites. The rest do build their own nests.

(pause)

(push glasses back up nose)

I liked that book.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Well, actually (pauses to push nerd glasses up on nose) only about 40 percent of cuckoo species worldwide are brood parasites. The rest do build their own nests.

(pause)

(push glasses back up nose)

I liked that book.

I preferred Sometimes a Great Notion.

[tector]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I preferred Sometimes a Great Notion.

Much better book.

[tector]

All the infighting aside, Haskin's "profiling", etc., it strikes me it is MUCH, MUCH harder to win the TC than in days past due to:

1. Changes in the breed
2. Changes in preferred training methods (largely a function of 1)
3. Changes in trainer tactics as to which races to participate in (largely a function of 2)
4. Field sizes

The Derby winner is being asked to do things that no other quality horse is ever asked to do today. Meanwhile, everybody else picks their spots and can adhere to a far more normal regimen, even though they are asked to go what is now a freakish distance in the Belmont.

Any horse that ever gets across those 3 wires first in only 5 weeks has done an unbelievably difficult thing in our present time--which, until equine-accommodating time machines are built, is the only time in which they can race. What is the most sensible bet is not something that can be determined until there is a live tote board. But I assume every racing fan is rooting for this horse.